Thursday, February 11, 2016

Riot in Monterrey Prison; First Reports say 50 Dead and 12 injured

In the early hours this morning shortly after midnight a riot broke out at the "infierno" ("hell") Penal del Topo Chico prison in Monterrey in the state of Nuevo Leon. The State Investigative Agency unoffically put the number of dead at 50 including guards and inmates. Nuevo Leon Governor Rodriquez ("el Bronco") tweeted that there were at least 52 killed and 12 injured and said that no prisoners escaped.

Conflicting reports say the riot started in a confrontation between prisoners of the Zeta cartel and a rival cartel. Other reports are saying the riot was the result of an attempted massive escape attempt by some members of the Zetas.

Milenio TV reported that a group of prisoners took over one of the pavilions of the prison and started a fire as a diversion to distract guards from an apparently unsuccessful escape attempt.more updates next page

The violence prompted the mobilization of the army, Civil Force, and Monterrey police. The Governor and Security Director both tweeted that the situation was under control by 1:30AM and that they would be a press conference this morning to provide more details.

UPDate: This is a video capture of a news conference Governor Rodriquez gave a few minutes ago; To see the press conference (in Spanish) press here;

Rodríguez said no firearms were used during the riot and no prisoners had escaped, or attempted to do so.
He
said the fight was between rival factions, one of which was headed by
Juan Pedro Salvador Zaldívar, known as Z-27, a member of the Los Zetas
drug cartel.
- See more at:
http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/52-inmates-killed-monterrey-prison-riot/?utm_source=Mexico+News+Daily&utm_campaign=19dc49fe0d-February+11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f1536a3787-19dc49fe0d-349444589#sthash.ryWBmips.dpuf

Rodríguez said no firearms were used during the riot and no prisoners had escaped, or attempted to do so.

He said the fight was between rival factions, one of which was headed by Juan Pedro Salvador Zaldívar, known as Z-27, a member of the Los Zetas drug cartel.

Rodríguez said no firearms were used during the riot and no prisoners had escaped, or attempted to do so.
He
said the fight was between rival factions, one of which was headed by
Juan Pedro Salvador Zaldívar, known as Z-27, a member of the Los Zetas
drug cartel.
- See more at:
http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/52-inmates-killed-monterrey-prison-riot/?utm_source=Mexico+News+Daily&utm_campaign=19dc49fe0d-February+11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f1536a3787-19dc49fe0d-349444589#sthash.ryWBmips.dpuf

By daylight a large crowd of families of inmates had gathered outside the prison gates trying to get information on family members who were inside.

One woman shouted "there are women and children in there" apparently referring family members that had been inside on conjugal visits. Governor "Bronco" tweeted that all the dead were males.

women visitors could be seen on a balcony from the street

Topo Chico is the oldest prison in Monterrey. According to a BBC report Topo Chico prisoners suffer incarceration under horrible conditions;

Heavily overcrowded, with prisoners sleeping in the corridors

Cells have no water, light or ventilation, according to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture

Female prisoners complain of being forced into sexual slavery by male inmates

Members of rival drug gangs Los Zetas and the Gulf cartel target each other

In 2011, Topo Chico's security chief was abducted, killed and his body dismembered

Previous escape attempts have involved digging tunnels and even a grenade attack from outside the prison walls

Governor Rodriquez appears to be responding rapidly to probably the biggest crisis his new administration has faced. “We are experiencing a tragedy due to the conditions present in the penitentiaries,” he said.

He promised personal attention for the families of the victims and said there would be human rights officials present during the investigation into the incident

Milenio is reporting that several trucks were seen entering and leaving the prison that are transporting about 100 prisoners to the airport where they will be relocated to other prisons outside the state of Nuevo Leon.

This incident is the latest in a series of deadly riots in recent
years to hit the country’s overcrowded prisons, which often house
inmates from different drug gangs.

In 2013, at least 13 people were killed and 65 injured in a prison
riot, which was blamed on gang violence, in the central Mexican state of
San Luis Potosí.

In 2012, at least 44 inmates died in a when members of the notorious Zetas drug cartel plotted with prison guards in an elaborate escape from the Apodaca prison in Monterrey.

he prison's director was later sacked.

In Sept. of 2012 more than 130 inmates escaped through a tunnel from a prison in Piedras Negras, Coahuila.

In December 2010, 153 inmates escaped from a prison in the northern city of Nuevo Laredo, right across Laredo, Texas.

The riot comes only a day before Pope Francis is scheduled to arrive for
his first papal visit to Mexico. He plans to visit a notorious prison
in Ciudad Juarez, once considered one of the most violent cities in the
world, next week.

@ big country with plenty of resources. Can't even do one damn thing right. ALL of them contribute one way or the other to their misery. Is what happens when they let those crooks, crime, thugs, goons, rats, roaches, snakes, all sort of animals in the govt body.

El bronco rodriguez "survived several attempts" from los zetas...--i find that suspicious, I suspect this riot was to clean up enemies of los zetas, remember that monterrey is owned by el "hombre de Agualeguas" carlos salinas de gortari, and epn is best friends with el bronco what has done nothing against the former governor Rodrigo Medina who he was going to put en la carcel, por ratero y corrupto...--El bronco is A gift from the ELITE ZETAS in case el pri is kicked in 2018, a los zetas les gustan mucho sus caballos del bronco...

7:21, well, the profirstas were never going to go away...These crooks .ay take longer because the US sponsors them and supports them and gives them weapons and billions of dollars and "intelligence" and soldiers of fortune and consulting services to insult the intelligence of all comers or die trying...luckily we the naysayers are growing in numbers...

7:21 The escatological relations between the ELITE and the regular "zetas" were not supposed to see the light of day, ever, it was expected that there would be room for "plausible deniability" full of "conspiracy theories" and denials, thanks, we can move on to a higher step...

Many Zeta killers are there,the families and women crying about loved ones feel a little bit of what kidnap victims and every other crime you can think of perpetrated by the grimy Zetas,silly bitches.Have kids with 'sicarios,estakas' when their kids themselves,then these ratas get locked up.My heart bleeds for Zeta families,putos perros

To kill 50/52 prisoners without guns, is kind of hard, unless you have help from prison guards and some cooperation from inside, only los zetas kill like this, a puros chingazos y filerazos, cry for nobody, find the guilty parties.

By force 5:35. When it comes to prison breaks Zetas don't come lightly. They come hard and fast with the expectation that dozens of Zetas get freed. With Osiel's prison break the Z would have killed as many people as possible to free him. It would have been an escape for the ages if it was successful.

The zetas still did some nice break outs while under cdg aegis. Caravans of trucks loaded with real zetas and their commanders over watching from helicopters above. No one did shit like that till then.

Escaping from a pig pen is easy, EVEN LOS "SETAS" CAN DO IT.--For other real operations it takes real jefes...--Lucky Luciano got released to have his help and the mob cooperation for WWII, even righteous TOM DEGÜEY was OK with it

rumors say that cdg and z Alliance is on againbut not every z and cdg leader is ok with itso this is what happened in the topo chicoit was cdg vs zetas(majority of the penal)also teres a picture in Facebook that shows two beheaded persons in a rooftop of the penal

That's what you think, CDG not weak as you say.... Still controlling plazas in Tamps, Nuevo Leon,Zacatecas, heard they were trying to fight plazas in Sonora and they still have presence in Guerrero and Yucatan I believe

The CDG are WEAK as an organization, they are now operating like a confederation. They are split up in various cells using the "CDG" name. They don't work together like they used to be, even Taliban people switched sides in Zacatecas. Because they knew Golfos are bunch of back stabbing bitches. They are even fighting against each other in Tamaulipas (there most important plaza).

To the guy above tell us something we don't know.the cdg is a confederation of weak ass cells that don't have no power like before.commanded by idiots who kidnap instead of moving product and who kill for no good reason instead on traying to work together to make more money and inverse they r power base.

Looking here, back in the day, los setas were hiring the survivors of their marathon fights for the survival of the fittest, now the fittest survive in prison and get sent to other prisons to spread the evangelios of survival of the fittest, the mexican governing narco-mierdocracia is hiring a few good men, always...--Rodrigo medina should have been in this prison and his rat daddy, but al "BLOnco Lodliguezzz" le temblo la mano, no le vayan a hacer a él lo mismo, dicen que "con la vara que mides, serás medido", y pos 'tá cabrón...

Rumors , talk , this gang or that gang, who gives a rats ass ! They are all worthless ,uneducated criminals and junkies !Let them kill eachother! They are useless to any civil society on the face of the earth!

2:56 Civil Societies do not have this kind of prisoners in overcrowded prisons with the only mission of doing harm to other less powerful prisoners, and they do not allow private corrections corporations to exist, much less have the upper hand and even create their own criminals to get them more prospect jail birds

The over crowding would not happen if Mexico was not so corrupt and if there were well paid honest jobs. There is so much rampant crime that sooner or later things will blow over. You need money even to live okay in prison. Without money you have no basic human rights,

Mexico is in one of it's best moments regarding to regular jobs (with social security), thugs are thugs. The US hosts the largest criminal population on earth 2'200,000 compared to Mexico's 238,000. You are right, you need money for anything (everywhere or ask the homeless in SF or SD), but that is another matter.

Oh my gosh it's incredible. I have to be honest with you people, it honestly breaks my heart to know that 52 people got killed. I think it would be nice if at least 800 of the 3800 were killed, I think 52 it's a small number.

800 killed you want...Well one of these days when the neo-nazis in charge of drug traffick8ng, murder and turf wake up and nab more people than they can handle, they will start applying a "final solution" to finally solve the narco problem of overpopulation and get the nacos, asalariados, and the proles on the shower trains full of poison gases...

yeah, ok ...no comparison! Jews owned businesses , Had college degrees and were hard working people that didn't go around terrorizing and killing their own people! The narco trash are a bunch of low life uneducated scum that kill babies and their own neighbors and are killing their culture! They use supply and demand as an excuse , but they cave in to the white mans needs. Sooooo, yes please, exterminate the narco thug trash that kill babies , that's a fantastic idea!!!!

Well, the uneducated rabble released the prisoners and dismantled the bastille, and took the Versailles monarchy to the guillotines, and by them nobody was asking for bread or living off the bizcocho...In mexico, if there are uneducated narcos, murderers and gangsters, it is because the government officers steal the budget, the jobs, education opportunities, they learned to do that on the US, and the drug trafficking was also brought in by the americans, not all of them, just more than a few...

Let's cross our finger. The Pope visiting a notorious prison will be an eye opener for him. Sharing a common language and an understanding of Hispanic culture ought to at minimum get world's attention.

Watching the events in Mexico is like observing a person succumb to serious alcoholism. Something has to break and what it is may be catastrophic to Mexico and its neighbors.

Get the guards out, lock the place down and set it on fire. If it is fire they want, fire they get. Waste of time housing these criminals. Rid society of every last one of them. Give a press release it was a gas leak.

The guiltiest of the big crooks, well, they make bail, they are not in prison as a rule...--many guards also help the worst of the prison criminals, they let the weapons in you know? They also follow their wives and girlfriends home for some, checking them on the way in is not always enough...

The hole in the middle of el cerro de la silla, was made by a man that dropped un centavo in a hole on the top of el cerro, the monterreyenos are that tight fisted, un pinchi cerro was not going to steal un centavo from that guy...

So it was Z from Nuevo Laredo and Northern part of Nuevo León (Z-27) against Zs from the area metropolitan of Monterrey (Comandante Credo). I wonder what is the regional bosses of Monterrey think about this incident, Z-413 and Z-45 are the main bosses of the metropolitan area of Monterrey they are both ex Mexican marines and they are both from Monterrey.

This was a vengance from Zetas from Nuevo Laredo against Zetas that killed El Comandante Fresa early this year. Fresa was killed in El Topo by Zetas from Monterrey, most probably they where having an internal fight for the control of El Topo I don't really think it's going to spill the violence in the streets of Monterrey. It was more of a personal conflict between those 2 Reginald bosses of the Zetas.

Zetas are called those "esos hijos de putas" by many people too, but they zetases no happy about it...--This massacre is one of the reasons why...--now as a prize, they have been moved to spread the zetas evangelios of kill, kill, kill!!! On other prisons, and it is no accident, you better believe ME...

Shipping other prisoners out? I smell a cover-up of the conditions the prison was in prior to the incident. Massive cleanup before any human rights activists show up. The press will attack this with a fury on the eve of the pope's visit to another prison.

Awwww....some Z scum and other murderers, rapists and low life cartel members got killed in prison. GOOD!!! NO ONE should feel sorry for these guys. They were in prison because they wanted to be part of some cartel. They got what was coming to them because of the evil they brought to their society. This should happen more often in Mexican prisons to get rid of the cartel members. Let them kill each other. Even more pathetic that the families are crying over their loved ones that were part of this riot. These families should be ashamed to show their faces knowing their "loved" one was a member of the trash called Zetas or some other cartel. The gang members that survived should have to dig holes and just drop the bodies of their dead buddies in them. End of story!!

8:45 we can not insult pendejos estupidos on this blog, that is why I can not express myself as I wish, but these prisoners had their sentences, none of them was brutal death by clubs or knives from a rival criminal gang, and most important, this "riot" seems to be inspired by rats from outside and to be a planned nurder, most likely...--All as inhuman, incompetent and corrupt as only the mexican government can be...